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12-letter words containing c, p, l, d

  • contemplated — to look at or view with continued attention; observe or study thoughtfully: to contemplate the stars.
  • counterplead — to plead the opposite of
  • crowd-puller — If you describe a performer or event as a crowd-puller, you mean that they attract a large audience.
  • d-s particle — a positively charged meson having a mass 3852 times that of the electron and a mean lifetime of approximately 4.7 X 10 -13 seconds.
  • dactyloscopy — the analysis of fingerprints for the purpose of identification
  • dallapiccola — Luigi (luˈiːdʒi). 1904–75, Italian composer of twelve-tone music. His works include the opera Il Prigioniero (1944–48) and the ballet Marsia (1948)
  • debit policy — a policy for industrial life insurance sold door to door by an agent who collects the premiums.
  • decapitalise — to deprive of capital; discourage capital formation; withdraw capital from: The government decapitalized industry with harsh tax policies.
  • decapitalize — to make difficult to have or to take away stock or wealth from
  • decapsulated — Simple past tense and past participle of decapsulate.
  • decipherable — to make out the meaning of (poor or partially obliterated writing, etc.): to decipher a hastily scribbled note.
  • deckle strap — a strap on each edge of the moving web of paper on a paper-making machine that fixes the width of the paper
  • decomposable — to separate or resolve into constituent parts or elements; disintegrate: The bacteria decomposed the milk into its solid and liquid elements.
  • deduplicated — Simple past tense and past participle of deduplicate.
  • deep ecology — a radical environmental movement and philosophy that regards humans as equal to other organisms within the global ecosystem.
  • depoliticise — Alternative spelling of depoliticize.
  • depoliticize — to deprive of a political nature; render apolitical
  • desmoplastic — (pathology) That produces adhesions.
  • despotically — of, relating to, or of the nature of a despot or despotism; autocratic; tyrannical.
  • dicarpellary — having two carpels
  • diencephalic — Of or pertaining to the diencephalon.
  • diencephalon — the posterior section of the forebrain.
  • dinaric alps — a mountain range in W Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Serbia: connected with the main Alpine system by the Julian Alps. Highest peak: Troglav, 1913 m (6277 ft)
  • diploblastic — having two germ layers, the ectoderm and endoderm, as the embryos of sponges and coelenterates.
  • diplocardiac — having the right and left sides of the heart somewhat or completely divided, as in birds and mammals.
  • diplodocuses — Plural form of diplodocus.
  • diplomatical — Obsolete form of diplomatic.
  • discerptible — capable of being torn apart; divisible.
  • discipleship — (initial capital letter) a member of the Disciples of Christ.
  • disciplinant — a person belonging to a former order of flagellants in Spain
  • disciplinary — of, for, or constituting discipline; enforcing or administering discipline: disciplinary action.
  • disciplining — Present participle of discipline.
  • disculpating — Present participle of disculpate.
  • dispatchable — Capable of being dispatched.
  • displaceable — Capable of being displaced.
  • displacement — the act of displacing.
  • display case — glass box, cabinet
  • display hack — (graphics)   A program with the same approximate purpose as a kaleidoscope: to make pretty pictures. Famous display hacks include munching squares, smoking clover, the BSD Unix "rain(6)" program, "worms(6)" on miscellaneous Unixes, and the X "kaleid(1)" program. Display hacks can also be implemented without programming by creating text files containing numerous escape sequences for interpretation by a video terminal; one notable example displayed, on any VT100, a Christmas tree with twinkling lights and a toy train circling its base. The hack value of a display hack is proportional to the aesthetic value of the images times the cleverness of the algorithm divided by the size of the code. Synonym psychedelicware.
  • display pack — an empty box, etc, on a shop shelf, advertising a piece of merchandise that, due to its value or size, is not stored on the shelf. The display pack is normally taken to the till and there exchanged, on payment, for the actual item
  • displeasance — the state or cause of being displeased
  • ditriglyphic — of or pertaining to ditriglyphs
  • dockwalloper — longshoreman
  • dolphin kick — (in the butterfly stroke) a kick in which the legs move up and down together, with the knees bent on the upswing.
  • double piece — a piece of plate armor for reinforcing or replacing a piece ordinarily used in a suit.
  • double-space — to type (text, copy, etc.) leaving a full space between lines: Always double-space a term paper.
  • dow compiler — An early system on the Datatron 200 series.
  • duplex chain — a roller chain having two sets of rollers linked together, used for heavy-duty applications
  • duplicatable — capable of being duplicated.
  • duplications — Plural form of duplication.
  • electrotyped — Simple past tense and past participle of electrotype.
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